Detection of antibiotics in pork for the use of new animal welfare technologies during life and at slaughter, ensuring food safety and improving meat quality.

The aim of this project is to improve food quality and ensure safety in the consumption of the product generated by reducing or even eliminating antibiotics in meat products. To achieve this goal, a program will be implemented to enhance animal welfare, boost their immune system, and eliminate stressful situations, thereby reducing the preventive medication administered to the animal. To obtain empirical results, it will be necessary to study antibiotic levels at ´trace´ levels. This will require the development of a sampling protocol and the selection and design of analytical instrumentation to obtain reliable results of these drug levels using a validated equipment for this purpose.